FREE beta trial CF8 Web Hosting accounts are now available.
What you will get:
Windows 2003 platform with .NET 1/2/3
200MB Disk space
200MB MS SQL 2005 OR MS SQL 2008 (”Katmai” Trial) Database space
FTP Access
DNS Management for your own domain or yourname.cf8host.com
Email Management
To sign up, please go to www.coldfusion8hosting.com
ColdFusion 8 Web Hosting
On 30 May 2007 Adobe announced availability of ColdFusion 8 public beta.
Fast Hit Web Hosting will be one of the first web hosting companies to release production CF 8 Hosting plans when ColdFusion 8 becomes available. Stay tuned – the developments will be posted on this blog
and Fast Hit’s News Page.
If you’d like a free ColdFusion 8 Hosting account while it’s still in Beta, please let us know at support@fasthit.net
There some really cool features in this new ColdFusion 8 version:
What is web 2.0 hosting? The web 2.0 buzz is propagating into the hosting industry, with more and more companies now claiming that they offer “Web 2.0 Hosting“. What is it anyway? What are the web 2.0 – specific hosting features? What would you like to see in Fast Hit’s web hosting plans that would make your web 2.0 life easier?
How fast is your internet connection? Speedtest.net provides a great service where you can test your upload and download speed to various places around the globe.
Fast Hit is now sponsoring one of the nodes – test your speed now! http://fasthit.speedtest.net/Â
In order to improve network accessibility, we moved one of our DNS servers and backup mail server to Brisbane. This is a seamless change that doesn’t require any changes in web hosting account settings (as the DNS servers are referenced by the hostname and not the IP).
So, currently Fast Hit has 3 DNS servers:
ColdFusion 7.0.2 / Flex 2 hosting is now available on all Fast Hit’s MX7 plans. ColdFusion 7.0.2 includes the ColdFusion Data Services and ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2.
Here is one of the first Flex applications hosted on the server – “My Tasting Notes Wine tracker” from www.mytastingnotes.com.au
Links:
If you are looking for a greater flexibilty with your hosting account – we now have a solution – take a look at Fast Hit’s VPS hosting plans. A web hosting account can now be put inside a VPS (Virtual Private Server) for total security. You will also have a root or administrator access to your “server” that will allow you to configure the machine the way you want and install any program you like. ColdFusion inside VPS is not yet available, but we’re testing it. There a few customers who put each of their clients inside a separate VPS for greater flexibility.
VPS = Virtual Private Server is based on Virtuozzo which creates isolated, secure virtual environments (VEs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization, ensuring guaranteed resources and preventing applications from conflicting. Each VE performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server.
Each VPS can be rebooted independently and have users, IP addresses, processes, system libraries and configuration files. The system comes with an additional control panel that allows you to…
That’s it! Give Fast Hit a call if you’d like to try it out.